Deleuze and History

Despite the fact that time, evolution, becoming and genealogy are central concepts in Deleuze's work, there has been no sustained study of his philosophy in relation to the question of history. This book aims to open up Deleuze's relevance to those working in history, the history of ideas, science studies, evolutionary psychology, history of philosophy and interdisciplinary projects inflected by historical problems.

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The essays in this volume (all by internationally recognised Deleuze scholars) cover all aspects of Deleuze's philosophy and its relation to history, ranging from the application of Deleuze's philosophy to historical method, Deleuze's own use of the history of philosophy, his interpretations of other historical thinkers (such as Hume and Nietzsche) and the complex theories of time and evolution in his work.

Contents

Introduction, Claire Colebrook1. Events, Becoming and History, Paul Patton2. Of the Rise and Progress of Philosophical Concepts, Deleuze's Humean Historiography, Jeff Bell3. Theory of Delay in Balibar, Freud, and Deleuze, Décalage, Nachträglichkeit, Retard, Jay Lampert4. Geohistory and hydro-bio-politics, John Protevi5. The Thought of History in Benjamin & Deleuze, Tim Flanagan6. The Cannibal Within, White Men and the Embodiment of Evolutionary Time, Eve Bischoff7. Ageing, Pperpetual Perishing and the Event as Pure novelty, Péguy, Whitehead and Deleuze on time and history, James Williams8. Cinema, chronos/cronos, becoming an accomplice to the impasse of history, David Deamer9. Deleuze's Untimely, Uses and Abuses in the Appropriation of Nietzsche, Craig Lundy10. Is Anti-Oedipus a May '68 book?, Ian Buchanan11. Molar Entities and Molecular Populations in Human History, Manuel DeLandaNotes on ContributorsIndex.

About the Author

Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari, including Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), Deleuze’s Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos (University of Toronto Press, 2006) and The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (University of Toronto Press, 1998). Bell is co-editor with Paul Livingston and Andrew Cutrofello of Beyond the Analytic–Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2015) and with Claire Colebrook of Deleuze and History (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).

Professor of English at Penn State University. She is the author of New Literary Histories (1997), Gilles Deleuze (2002), Understanding Deleuze (2002), Irony in the Work of Philosophy (2002), Gender (2003) and Irony: The New Critical Idiom (2003) and the co-editor of Deleuze and Feminist Theory (1999).